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Acts 19:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
Acts 19:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
18 [a]And many that believed, came and [b]confessed, and showed their works.
19 Many also of them which used curious arts, brought their books, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it [c]fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20 So the word of God grew mightily, and prevailed.
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- Acts 19:18 Conjuring and sorcery is condemned by open testimony, and by the authority of the Apostle.
- Acts 19:18 Confessed their errors, and detested them openly, being terrified with the fear of the judgment of God: and what is this to ear shrift?
- Acts 19:19 They that make the least value of it, reckon it to be about eight hundred pounds English.
Acts 19:18-20
New International Version
Acts 19:18-20
New International Version
18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.[a] 20 In this way the word of the Lord(A) spread widely and grew in power.(B)
Footnotes
- Acts 19:19 A drachma was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages.
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